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“Find another hobby or you’re going to die.” In my attempt to get her into gaming, I once brought my girlfriend to an indie game store to grab a controller. Th
by nefitty 11y ago
“Find another hobby or you’re going to die.”
In my attempt to get her into gaming, I once brought my girlfriend to an indie game store to grab a controller. The kids there were in the middle of some card tournament. There was an audible COD Twitch stream on the TVs. As we're paying for the controller, a player on the screen yells "Damn dude! He got fuckin' raped!" No one in the store batted an eyelash. The only female in the store, my girlfriend, suddenly felt very uncomfortable. In the parking lot she told me she doesn't want to go into a video game store ever again.
- prawn 11y agoIt's really unfortunate that a term like "rape" has become so commonplace not just in gaming but with males describing sports events. Boys in need of a superlative. Another disturbing one is males describing sexual intent with violent terms: e.g., "I'd smash her." Not sure if it happens in the US, but I hear it in pubs/bars in Australia.
- nefitty 11y agoYeah, kind of a weird coincidence but I was just recently writing a song about criticizing that "hit-it" mindset. I didn't realize that even terms like that have underlying violent connotations. I began listing some terms I hear, but realized how distasteful that is especially given the article above. Here in Vegas there is definitely a lot of that slang thrown around.
- Theory5 11y agoYup, like how the word "retard" became derogatory, which can be sensitive to people with mental illnesses, and "gay" changed meaning several times, etc etc.